Joe Carey

Joe Carey is a well-known figure in New York GAA circles, having enjoyed a long and successful career as a player with NY Tipperary hurlers and NY Cork footballers, as well as playing for New York in both codes in the National League. He played Senior football for Tipperary before emigrating to New York in 1955, and gives an interesting insight into hurling and football in Tipperary in the late 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. The interview covers equipment, travel and school, as well as hurling and football styles. He was heavily involved with the Tipperary club in New York as a player, official and manager and gives an excellent insight into the role of the GAA in New York as a social outlet and career network. He also has a lot to say on the social side of GAA life. Like many young emigrants, he was drafted shortly after he arrived in America and discusses the effects of this. Two points of particular interest are his description of the New York GAA’s 1964 Round the World Trip and also New York’s games against an Australian rules side in 1964 and 1967.